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Ends December 1617. Continued to 1622 in the following volume
(First Series 67). This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition
of the volume first published in 1883.
Continues from First Series 67, with the years 1618-1622, .together
with Cocks's correspondence with the East India Company and others.
This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first
published in 1883.
Principal librarian of the British Museum and eminent
palaeographer, Sir Edward Maunde Thompson (1840-1929) had
originally produced a handbook on the history and development of
Greek and Latin handwriting in 1893. He extensively revised and
expanded it for this 1912 edition, incorporating numerous facsimile
plates. Thompson begins his treatment with an introduction to the
Greek and Latin alphabets, then surveys ancient writing materials
and implements, and describes the use and development of scrolls
and codices. Later chapters, accompanied by valuable illustrations,
examine the different forms of first Greek then Latin handwritten
texts, from the earliest surviving examples (fourth century BCE) to
the end of the fifteenth century. Punctuation, accents and
abbreviations are considered, and the various scripts - cursive,
uncial, majuscule and miniscule - are all illustrated and examined.
Tables of Greek and Latin literary and cursive alphabets are also
provided.
Thomas of Walsingham (c.1340-c.1422) was a monk of St Alban's abbey
whose Latin chronicle of the years 1328-88 was long thought lost.
It was rediscovered by chance and edited by Edward Maunde Thompson
(1840-1929), whose edition, published in 1874 with English
side-notes, is based on a Harleian manuscript he found in the
British Museum, supplemented by Bodleian and Cottonian manuscripts.
Walsingham's chronicle is notable for its scurrilous attacks on
John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster and father of Henry IV. This
scandalous material accounts for its suppression by the monks of St
Alban's, who would have been fearful of offending the Plantagenet
dynasty. Thompson's introduction provides a full history of the
discovery and comparison of the manuscript sources, a discussion of
the contents of the chronicle, and two later English texts based on
it. A portion of Walsingham's Polychronicon, covering the years
1376-7, is provided as an appendix.
These two Latin chronicles are principally concerned with the
events of the mid-fourteenth century, and are particularly
interesting for their accounts of the French campaigns of Edward
III in the 1340s and 1350s. The chronicle of Adam Murimuth
(c.1275-1347), which the writer designed to be a continuation of
earlier works, begins in 1303 and extends to 1347. Although it is
meagre at first, its latter parts are much fuller as Murimuth was
able to draw on contemporary accounts. The chronicle of the deeds
of Edward III by Robert of Avesbury (d.1359) is a military history
of his reign up to the year 1356. It makes use of important
documents that are not reproduced elsewhere. Published in 1889,
this edition by Edward Maunde Thompson (1840-1929) includes an
introduction providing historical background and relating what
little is known of each chronicler. The Latin texts are accompanied
by English side-notes.
The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made
available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of
exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899,
consists of 100 books containing published or previously
unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir
Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and
Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. Volumes 66 and 67 of the
series, edited by E. M Thompson and first published in 1883,
contain the bulk of the diary of Richard Cocks (c.1565 1624),
supplemented by a selection of letters. Cocks was the head of a
trading post established in Japan by the British East India Company
from its foundation in 1613 until 1622, when it went out of
business. His diary describes Japanese society and culture in the
early seventeenth century, as well as the activities of British
merchants there.
The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made
available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of
exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899,
consists of 100 books containing published or previously
unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir
Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and
Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. Volumes 66 and 67 of the
series, edited by E. M Thompson and first published in 1883,
contain the bulk of the diary of Richard Cocks (c.1565 1624),
supplemented by a selection of letters. Cocks was the head of a
trading post established in Japan by the British East India Company
from its foundation in 1613 until 1622, when it went out of
business. His diary describes Japanese society and culture in the
early seventeenth century, as well as the activities of British
merchants there.
The Henry Bradshaw Society was established in 1890 in commemoration
of Henry Bradshaw, University Librarian in Cambridge and a
distinguished authority on early medieval manuscripts and
liturgies, who died in 1886. The Society was founded for the
editing of rare liturgical texts'; its principal focus is on the
Western (Latin) Church and its rites, and on the medieval period in
particular, from the sixth century to the sixteenth (in effect,
from the earliest surviving Christian books until the Reformation).
Liturgy was at the heart of Christian worship, and during the
medieval period the Christian Church was at the heart of Western
society. Study of medieval Christianity in its manifold aspects -
historical, ecclesiastical, spiritual, sociological - inevitably
involves study of its rites, and for that reason Henry Bradshaw
Society publications have become standard source-books for an
understanding of all aspects of the middle ages. Moreover, many of
the Society's publications have been facsimile editions, and these
facsimiles have become cornerstones of the science of palaeography.
The society was founded for the editing of rare liturgical texts;
its principal focus is on the Western (Latin) Church and its rites,
and on the medieval period in particular, from the sixth century to
the Reformation. Study of medieval Christianity - at the heart of
Western society - inevitably involves study of its rites, and the
society's publications are essential to an understanding of all
aspects (historical, ecclesiastical, spiritual, sociological) of
the middle ages.
The Henry Bradshaw Society was established in 1890 in commemoration
of Henry Bradshaw, University Librarian in Cambridge and a
distinguished authority on early medieval manuscripts and
liturgies, who died in 1886. The Society was founded for the
editing of rare liturgical texts'; its principal focus is on the
Western (Latin) Church and its rites, and on the medieval period in
particular, from the sixth century to the sixteenth (in effect,
from the earliest surviving Christian books until the Reformation).
Liturgy was at the heart of Christian worship, and during the
medieval period the Christian Church was at the heart of Western
society. Study of medieval Christianity in its manifold aspects -
historical, ecclesiastical, spiritual, sociological - inevitably
involves study of its rites, and for that reason Henry Bradshaw
Society publications have become standard source-books for an
understanding of all aspects of the middle ages. Moreover, many of
the Society's publications have been facsimile editions, and these
facsimiles have become cornerstones of the science of palaeography.
The society was founded for the editing of rare liturgical texts;
its principal focus is on the Western (Latin) Church and its rites,
and on the medieval period in particular, from the sixth century to
the Reformation. Study of medieval Christianity - at the heart of
Western society - inevitably involves study of its rites, and the
society's publications are essential to an understanding of all
aspects (historical, ecclesiastical, spiritual, sociological) of
the middle ages.
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